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Niki de Saint Phalle (French: [niki d(ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American artist whose diverse practice encompassed a wide variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, performance, and film. Her work explores femininity, gender oppression, violence, and joy. Saint Phalle was born the second of five children to American.
Niki de Saint Phalle paired bold, jubilant, and cartoonish feminine forms with dark and disturbing material in her multifaceted artistic career. Throughout, she continually disrupted long-held conventions in art, and her iconoclastic approach to her identity and society at large made her an early and important voice to both the Feminist ...
Niki de Saint Phalle in her studio at Soisy, surrounded by Le Mangeur d'Enfants, La Mariée sous l'Arbre, and Le Cheval et la Mariée. Photo: © Monique Jacot The Retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2014 has drawn more than half a million visitors.
May 21, 2002 · Niki de Saint Phalle was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptors, Saint...
Sep 20, 2017 · September 20, 2017. Inspired by a friend's pregnancy, Saint Phalle began the "Nanas" series in the mid-1960s. Nanas are bulbous females with tiny heads and exaggerated anatomies that radiate mother-goddess symbolism, both playful and powerful.
Mar 11, 2021 · Mar 11–Sep 6, 2021. From the very outset of her career in the 1950s, Niki de Saint Phalle (American and French, 1930‒2002) defied artistic conventions, creating works that were overtly feminist, performative, collaborative, and monumental.
Niki de Saint Phalle (French: [niki d(ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.
Niki de Saint Phalle ( French: [niki d (ə) sɛ̃ fal]; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.
Oct 29, 2014 · Niki de Saint Phalle and Clarice Rivers working on the wire frame for a Nana Gwendolyn, Southampton, Long Island, summer 1965. Photo: © Camilla McGrath / Earl McGrath Gallery. Niki de Saint Phalle painting Hon at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1966.
